John 4:18

American Standard Version (1901)

for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 20:3 : 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Gen 34:7-8 : 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?
  • Num 5:29 : 29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
  • Ruth 4:10 : 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
  • Jer 3:20 : 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.
  • Ezek 16:32 : 32 A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
  • Mark 10:12 : 12 and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband 11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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    15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

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    19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

  • John 4:25-29
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    25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

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    28So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,

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  • John 4:9-11
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  • John 8:10-11
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    7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

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    33In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall she be? for the seven had her to wife.

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